Breakthrough case close to home

[xenon]

Hope he gets over it soon.

Now, stay in your rooms.

[Horace]

I hope you and your family make it through ok, jon.

[Doctor Phibes]

As everybody has already said, stay as safe as you can, and hopefully you can get through this quickly and safely.

[George K]

Update?

[jon-nyc]

He’s going for a rapid PCR today at 2:30. I’m fine he seems over it. I’m still avoiding him until I get a negative PCR from him. Monday at 2:30 I’ll have my 6th vaccine.

[LuFins Dad]

@jon-nyc said in Breakthrough case close to home:

He’s going for a rapid PCR today at 2:30. I’m fine he seems over it. I’m still avoiding him until I get a negative PCR from him. Monday at 2:30 I’ll have my 6th vaccine.

Are you eligible for that prophylactic that Jolly posted last week?

[jon-nyc]

I haven’t checked but I doubt it. I will have no trouble getting the one working monoclonal antibody treatment if I actually test positive and I know to do it early. Hopefully it won’t come to that.

[jodi]

Nothing useful to add, (though we’ve had two nasty respiratory virus go through our house lately that, according to multiple tests, are not Covid), anyway - thinking about you and hoping it’s not Covid!

[jon-nyc]

He was PCR negative today. It’s either gone or the 12/26 test was a false positive. The former is more likely, the home test he used has a 98+% specificity, 86%. IOW, false positives are much less common than false negatives, by 7-10x.

[LuFins Dad]

Great news! When is your next PCR?

[jon-nyc]

No thought of having one unless I get symptoms. I have a booster scheduled Monday and an antibody test 2 weeks later.

[Jolly]

@jon-nyc said in Breakthrough case close to home:

He was PCR negative today. It’s either gone or the 12/26 test was a false positive. The former is more likely, the home test he used has a 98+% specificity, 86%. IOW, false positives are much less common than false negatives, by 7-10x.

Likelihood of 12/26 being a false positive is remote. He had Omicron. And cleared it really fast.

Now, what I don't have a clue about, is the viability of Omicron on fomites.

[jon-nyc]

@jolly said in Breakthrough case close to home:

@jon-nyc said in Breakthrough case close to home:

He was PCR negative today. It’s either gone or the 12/26 test was a false positive. The former is more likely, the home test he used has a 98+% specificity, 86%. IOW, false positives are much less common than false negatives, by 7-10x.

Likelihood of 12/26 being a false positive is remote. He had Omicron. And cleared it really fast.

Yeah that seems the most likely explanation